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  • options market — a market in which options are traded
  • packet sniffer — (networking, tool)   A network monitoring tool that captures data packets and decodes them using built-in knowledge of common protocols. Sniffers are used to debug and monitor networking problems.
  • packet writing — (storage)   A technique for writing CD-Rs and CD-RWs that is more efficient in both disk space used and the time it takes to write the CD.
  • panic-stricken — overcome with, characterized by, or resulting from fear, panic, or the like: panic-stricken parents looking for their child; a panic-stricken phone call.
  • parking ticket — written notice of a parking violation
  • penalty killer — a player used when the player's team is short-handed as a result of a penalty, especially a player skilled at defense and employed regularly in such situations.
  • permanent link — (web)   A URL that always points to the same piece of web content. Web pages that appear for a limited time at their main URL, such as web logs or news sites, often display an alternative, permanent link. Readers can quote, bookmark, or link to this URL in order to refer to a particular item, rather than the page displaying the latest item. For example, the URL http://news.bbc.co.uk/ points to the latest news from the BBC whereas http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/2614839.stm is a permanent link to a particular news story.
  • potluck dinner — a meal consisting of whatever food happens to be available without special preparation
  • printer's mark — a stamp or device, usually found on the copyright page, that identifies a book as the work of a particular printer.
  • profit-seeking — attempting to make a profit or financial gains
  • quaker meeting — a meeting of Quakers, at which all members, except those moved to speak, remain silent.
  • quarterbacking — a back in football who usually lines up immediately behind the center and directs the offense of the team.
  • re-embarkation — the act of boarding a ship or aircraft again
  • reception desk — the front desk in a hotel where guests can books rooms or ask questions
  • reckon without — If you say that you had reckoned without something, you mean that you had not expected it and so were not prepared for it.
  • reefing jacket — a man's short double-breasted jacket of sturdy wool
  • retail banking — banking for individual customers
  • rocket science — rocketry.
  • roller-skating — the act of moving on roller skates
  • shark-infested — (of a body of water) known to contain large numbers of sharks, and therefore considered to be dangerous
  • shooting brake — station wagon.
  • sick and tired — afflicted with ill health or disease; ailing.
  • silky anteater — an arboreal, tropical American anteater, Cyclopes didactylus, about the size of a rat, having a prehensile tail, glossy, golden fur, and two toes on each forelimb.
  • single-sticker — a sailboat, esp. a sloop, having only one mast
  • social network — a network of friends, colleagues, and other personal contacts: Strong social networks can encourage healthy behaviors.
  • speaking terms — if you are on speaking terms with someone, you are quite friendly with them and often talk to them
  • stalking horse — If you describe a person or thing as a stalking horse, you mean that it is being used to obtain a temporary advantage so that someone can get what they really want.
  • stalking-horse — a horse, or a figure of a horse, behind which a hunter hides in stalking game.
  • stay-in strike — sit-down strike.
  • steam cracking — Steam cracking is the main method of breaking down large molecules of hydrocarbons, in which a gaseous or liquid hydrocarbon is diluted with steam and then heated.
  • sticky fingers — an inclination or tendency to steal or pilfer
  • stinking cedar — an evergreen tree, Torreya taxifolia, of the yew family, native to Florida, having rank-smelling foliage and dark-green, egg-shaped fruit.
  • stinking roger — any of various plants having an unpleasant odor.
  • stock in trade — the requisites for carrying on a business, especially goods kept on hand for sale in a store.
  • stock watering — the creation of more new shares in a company than is justified by its assets
  • stock-in-trade — items used in performing a job
  • stocking frame — a type of knitting machine
  • strike benefit — money paid to strikers by a union to enable them to subsist during a strike.
  • strikebreaking — action directed at breaking up a strike of workers.
  • striking price — in an option contract, the specified price at which a stock, commodity, etc. may be bought or sold; the price at which an investor can exercise profitably a put or call
  • summer kitchen — an extra kitchen, usually detached from a house, for use in warm weather.
  • take in stride — to walk with long steps, as with vigor, haste, impatience, or arrogance.
  • take inventory — count stock or belongings
  • test marketing — to offer (a new product) for sale, usually in a limited area, in order to ascertain and evaluate consumer response.
  • the kiwi ferns — the women's international Rugby League football team of New Zealand
  • the milk train — a very early morning train, that traditionally transported milk, on which passengers also travelled
  • ticket counter — the place where you buy a ticket for public transport, the theatre, cinema, etc
  • train sickness — nausea and dizziness, sometimes accompanied by vomiting, resulting from the motion of the train in which one is traveling.
  • trick question — sth asked to mislead or incriminate sb
  • turn the trick — a crafty or underhanded device, maneuver, stratagem, or the like, intended to deceive or cheat; artifice; ruse; wile.
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